Bitcoin is messianic:

https://cryptosovereignty.org/messianic-bitcoin/


200 pages in and still totally fucking with me.

I see the path of Beyng that he has laid out. Now to just try to explain it in any meaningful way…

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This is a pretty wide reaching question that I have a bunch of thoughts and ideas around, but I’d point out it’s already happening.

States will not be able to wage the kinds of conflicts they are today on a bitcoin standard. So over a long enough time span this resolves itself because fiat money will become priced appropriately; i.e. worthless.

But how much can we accelerate it until then? Well that’s a whole different story that really depends upon commitment, radicalism and pedagogy.  To me, getting people to understanding what bitcoin is as an ethical principle that leads to an economic one is probably the most important step IMHO.


My journey from North Korea to freedom taught me that true freedom is more than escaping physical borders. It’s about breaking free from systems of control. So I see Bitcoin as a tool to help people regain their freedom, not as a matter of being a "Bitcoiner," but as a way to empower individuals to protect their fundamental human rights.


We could be free, but the idea of contemplating deeply how money and wealth functions because we use it everyday and it one of the most definitive aspects of our society is simply too much for most people.

So instead we’ll get infinity wars, false democracy, and a collapsing political system because most people don’t want to think, and simply obey.


“The crypto bros have been given the greatest technology that has ever been given to man, and they have chosen to clone and mutilate it just to deepen their own enslavement for the sick and pathetic means of more fiat money.” nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf in Cryptosovereignty

#quotes #quotestr #bitcoin

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These are not small iterative changes of old ways, but totally new ways of connecting with cryptography in mind, and privacy at the heart.

👏👏👏

The future is very bright if you know where to look.

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🪧 The Four-Quarters Method

Instead of thinking, “I’ve blown the whole day, I’ll get back on track tomorrow,” try viewing your day as four separate quarters:

   •   Morning
   •   Midday
   •   Afternoon
   •   Evening

If one quarter doesn’t go as planned, reset for the next one. This way, you can fail small, not big, and stay in control of your progress.

– Gretchen Rubin

♻ Repost if this mindset shift resonates with you!

Image Credit: “newhappyco” on Instagram
#Time #Nostr #Bitcoin 😄 https://image.nostr.build/7844f796a8bb819c757b5ee88114eb1fe3e9ae881df03ad97cf77b04a439fc27.jpg


Sorry for my dyslexia.

Y’all are too kind for not calling me out on all of the gross grammatical and syntax errors I make.

🙏❤


GM,

This morning I am just reflecting on how profound the internet is.

Much of my of my life and who I am has been defined by it. I have been lucky enough to meet people from all over the world and some of my deepest friendships are a product of starting to interact with people online. Most of my adult jobs came from working at internet companies, and I helped scale teams that were totally remote and built incredible things with people whom I never actually met.

What the internet opens each of us up to is a radically new and different form of life. One where we are no longer limited to relationships just within our immediate proximity, but that we can seek out others like us from all over the plant to create, build, inspire, grow, and love together. It is truly profound what we are building here with Nostr and Bitcoin and the very real hope and agency that it can offer to all people everywhere, forever. It is the hope of an internet where all peoples who participate and create it together are self-sovereign; owning their data, wealth, and health of their digital life to enhance and liberate the lives they experience and are reflected in meatspace.

Thanks to each and everyone of you for believing in this vision we all share of an internet that is truly free, and beyond the power and control of any nation-state, corporation, or government to use against any of us. It is a task that is reserved for only us, and this generation of peoples at this time. We can lose this all and be doomed to a life for ourselves and all postally to come inside of a guild panoptic cage controlled and owned by states and corporations where the very concept of privacy is eliminated. That is a world that we cannot allow to come into existence, and with each and every one of you fighting against it, I know that we will win.

Thank you for believing in this, for working on it, and for participating. It means more than any of us will ever know, and our great grandchildren will one day beam with pride in knowing that their ancestors worked on such important projects.


Fuck cryptography, I want you on my baking team! 😋


https://v.nostr.build/99XGoPOT7Uv1JrWv.mp4
Be Different, Be You 🫂✨ PV 🔮👀🍀


I was surprised to learn that’s the highest grossing animated film of all time.


I meet this guy a few times a year. Was super early and bought 1000s of bitcoins only to sell them after a few gainz. Knows that all crypto can be hacked, knows guys at the NSA who are satoshi.

It’s always a cool story bro.

Too bad they never keep any of those bitcoin, with them being super well informed and all…

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It’s true he was the most fascist of all.


Most people are so captured by the guarantee for safety and security through the state (which does not exist in any meaningful way) vis monetary and economic means, that the idea of any form of life outside of that seems like nonsense.

It is nothing more than trying to explain the freedom beyond the cave to the slaves enamored with the shadows on the wall. They will insist their chains protect them, and the darkness is security.


I think we are underestimating how crazy the future will be


November 1st on WHY ARE WE BULLISH with @BTCsessions, @Erikcason, and @DrBitcoinMD

I will do the emissary draws for 2023 live

3 prints, 1 totem and 1 original 🎨

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There is a massive opportunity to use Nostr to build a kind of dating app where people can own their own data. I’d have to think about it for a while for how exactly it could be build, but someone’s gonna kill it with this idea at some point.


Sorry you are having this kind of day…


Who is Matt Ehret?


Seems pretty healthy so yeah there might be some micro nutrients that you’ll get that you been missing.


NPC: “But Obama won the peace prize!”

Me: “You mean the guy who chose to extrajudicial murder an American child via drone? That Obama?”


I love that Alfred Nobel—the dude who invented dynamite and who can arguably be link to more deaths via war that any other human in existence—then decided he’d use his money to make a ‘peace prize’.

It’s funny stuff.


NPC:

“See? I told you that was a conspiracy theory. Case closed.”


I mean, what have you been normally eating? Lots of processed and prepped stuff, or are you normally eating fresh vegetables 3 or 4 times a week? Also do you take any supplements?


I really liked the conclusion of this series, which I think actually aired as an episode of Justice League.


He will win it, and he will announce a global CBDC built on ETH at the same time.


What the most crazy about this to me, is I am sure I’ll point this stuff out to NPCs and they’ll say shit like, “but that’s just a conspiracy theory!” I’ll show them these research around this, and instead of accepting that this could be true, there will be accusations of the research being bungled and that this is some far-right conspiracy.

Anyways, happy I’ve been on well water for most of my life.

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The US government put #fluoride in our water and attacked anyone who questioned it.

Now - the NIH (after major pressure) has declared  it “reduces the IQ of children” and is “hazardous to human health”.
Individual States are removing it from their water supply.

This is under-covered news.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-fluoride-drinking-water-federal-court-ruling/


Verify for orange


Yes, yellow has to get at least one good troll on me for not checking every quarter.


No no, I’m just retarded


Fiat money is deeply nihilistic. At core, it's the idea that you can create value from nothing, and by extension, meaning from nothing. In a subtle way it concedes the metaphysical ground, that nothing is the default state, hence trivializing anything and everything. Denial of reality is its inevitable end.


Yellow got me again.

Good trolling.

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Ah ok, praise be to god for allow some level of logic to exist.

Good troll on me too.


Holy shit, this honest to god tops the clusterfuck disgrace of ‘journalism’ that originally pointed to Dorian Nakamoto as Satoshi.

Congratulations on this. Seriously, it was a high bar to fail to, and they somehow did it.

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This hurts bro.


This happened with my dog last year, good news is they will probably never mess with skunks again after this.


One of the best answers I ever heard about #Bitcoin was someone who asked a hardcore bitcoiner, “You only talk about all of these great benefits, but what is the worst thing about Bitcoin?”

His answer was, “It’s going to grant all those same freedoms and benefits to the person who you hate most in the world. And there’s nothing you can do about it.”

Ironically, that’s what most people can’t give up. They can’t let go of the statist temptation of arbitrarily punishing people they don’t like, or are afraid of. nostr:note1wxevegymwd4vscqu3urkqsx4qsuma9qphkdhk9amru3pdr77fjxsdsc0xr


What’s even more amazing is the actually value of freeing beings is worth more than their exploitation because of how subjective value theory functions. It’s hilarious


What I am excited for over the next decade is watching every single app be expropriated into the decentralized web as a P2P self-owned solution so no one gets to harvest your data and use it against you ever again.


I went into the local supermarket yesterday and noticed that there were maybe two dozen types of produce (all of which had been sprayed with poison and grown in nutrient starved soil), and I thought to myself,

“What the hell are we doing to ourselves?”

It’s sick, sad, and hard to come to terms with, but we are being fed poison for the most part.

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This was my favorite book when I was 7. I’m weird.


It feels so cool and powerful to do cypherpunk stuff and feel yourself become empowered through the sovereignty of cryptography.


Your government hates you. You are kept cattle being milked for tax dollars and profits. You're not worth enough to save.

Act accordingly.

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I have come back to this book.
Bitcoin is so fucking important.

Thank God for Satoshi.
nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pfits an inspiring read.
thankyou!

https://m.primal.net/LKwo.jpg


Zapped in primal and seemed to work


Yeah, maybe 4 or 5 people


The government hates you and will continue to steal, hurt and punish you no matter what because the people in government believe that’s the right thing to do.


It’s truly amazing how the state can ruin anything and everything it touches like blood cancer


I love that the state in all of its lobotomized brilliance is doing more than anything at any time in human history to accelerate the revolutionary agenda of radically freeing people from its own wrath in a way that it will never recover from.

The sovereign of cryptography and all of its various ways, modes, and functions is a one-way street that once understood, it cannot be taken away. It’s a form of logic that destroys the forms of power overreach the state has created from its panoptic.


Bitcoiners like to help.

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This is me too.


Voting is consenting to tyranny. Please stop frens.


I would only care if he signs and moves a substantial amount of coins.


When I was young man I had a mentor who I asked why some people totally fail at keeping their word or commitments. His response was:

“The hard truth is that most people are going to let you down in life. Most people can hardly commit to their own word to themselves, nonetheless anyone else. Don’t expect too much of other people, or you’ll spend most of your life angry and upset at people who were always incapable of keeping their word. Focus on those who you notice always try to keep their word and live with integrity—they might let you down too, but they’ll at least own it.”

I think about this a lot, and now that I’ve accumulated more life experiences, it’s a hard truth that I’m only fully coming to understand now.


My son who is under 10 bet me that he could read the1000 pages of the lord of the rings trilogy before the end of the month.


Lots of chatter on the airwaves and in print lately probing the limits of free speech, the justifications for censorship and the future viability of the US constitution.  It was a talking point in last night's VP debate as well, during which Walz recited the folk-loresy understanding of the issue:  "you can't yell fire in a crowded theater."

Here's a PSA on this little gem a bit in case you ever find yourself up against it.

The phrase comes from supreme court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr during the 1919 case Schenck v United States.  Anyone unfamiliar with this case might be shocked to learn that it had nothing to do with shouting fire, or with any kind of mischievous, anti-social trouble-making whatsoever.  At stake was the printing and mailing of pamphlets to draft-eligible men that made the case that the draft was against their constitutional rights and inviting citizens to peacefully abstain.  In other words, what was at stake in the trial were the defendants right to criticize perceived government transgression of the constitution, exactly what the first amendment was designed to ensure.

Amazingly, what was passed down to our collective memories about this episode is not the hard truth that governments will attempt to violate constitutional rights for their own, arguably nefarious, ends (a conceptual inheritance that would strengthen civic support for free speech), but rather the wildly inaccurate analogy of the crowded theater (an Orwellian description of the case that suggests government censorship is there to protect us and keep us safe).  And even though the precedent of Schenck was overturned in 1969, the "fire in a crowded theater" litmus test still lingers as the operative heuristic for a great many Americans, including, apparently, one of the candidates for Vice President of the country.

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Uhh, what do you think we are doing against fiat?


“What is FOSS?”

That is correct for 5k sats.


Classically it has been to organize revolutionary struggles based on worker’s condition and labor unions, and using that to smash the state.


Ironically it both is and is not. As it is not about capital acquisition, but Bitcoin or perhaps even more widely ‘crypto’ acquisition.

And by crypto I do not mean shitcoins, but like darknet market infrastructure and p2p privacy services.


socialism for me and not for thee


To be clear, I am an anarchist.

This is a real and develop political ideology that is important to understand beyond the propaganda we have all been taught.

I believe that our future is one of a political ideology of anarcho-syndicalism. However what distinguishes the form of syndicalism that I see is not one of labor, or worker’s unions—but value itself.

Sound familiar?


I agree with most of this, and that is specifically why the vanguard that powerfully leads such a movement must be done with the greatest of safeguards and care or else you end up with a horrific malformation version of nazism.


Read this, best response I’ll zap 21k sats:

https://heidegger-circle.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/5-Polt-Typewriter-CORRECTED.pdf


“Want my spicy content?

Just meaningfully engage with me 💅🐝🤩🏖”


Agreed


This is exactly why we will get a homegrown American fascist movement that will be outside and beyond republican lettuces-handed rightism, and it will become the most powerful political contingent to ever exisit.

The left will be begging for Trump in 8 years when they see what has been created from this.

And to be clear, fascism has ALWAYS been cultivated as an anti-socialism movement. That’s why it’s national socialism and not international socialism.

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What do you mean by own? As I don’t think exchange or etf bitcoin is owning it.

Even those who hold their own keys I’d say ~5% if I’m being generous.


Technological has always been biologically friendly, it’s who controls the technology into bio-power.

Through rebuilding the whole of the internet on top of FOSS algos, demarcated by asymmetric cryptography.

In other words, people need to own, know, and encrypted the full stack, of which most has not been developed yet.


who wants Testflight (iOS only) access to a NIP-60 wallet app I'm building?

10 largest zaps get you access to the testflight and to a NIP-29 community (also available through the app)

🙏  Repost for visibility, I need to pay rent 😂


I may do that, as I’ve found the pivot from vape to nothing has been easier in the past when I have quit for a bit


The intransigent minority of 3%.


This is a really, really big deal for creatives who constantly get fucked over, exploited, and taken advantage of by centralized services.

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GM, it’s official Off-tober now.

I try to use each October to try to get my shit together a little more than the month before.

This offtober I’m gonna try to get ‘off’ cigarettes for the month, and ‘off’ my ass to work out everyday.

We will see how it goes, but I’m setting the intention here and now, and will revisit next month to see how I do.


Is there anything more American than this?

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The point was never to get the state to accept, acquire, or even buy bitcoin. It was to leave us alone to be free with sovereign money.


Holy shit this was my conversation last night that ended with me wanting to rip my hair out because of how incapable they were of connecting the government doesn’t love you to the genocides of the 20th century


I’m a bitcoiner, and i don’t have to put up with this kinda bullshit most of the time.


Because I am retarded


Sorry, I’ve been pretty bitchy lately from a combination of personal life events, watching the catastrophe of American politics, and listening to everyone’s uninformed and absolutely banal opinions.


It’s true, just having a bad week


I am forced to live in a reality with a bunch of smooth brained morons who are incapable of thinking of a world where they are not slaves.

Sigh.


On civil disobedience is so fucking good. Be safe Hommie!


"I HEARTILY accept the motto,—“That government is best which governs least,” and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,—“That government is best which governs not at all;” and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at last be brought against a standing government. The standing army is only an arm of the standing government. The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it."

#Liberty #Freedom #RulesWithoutRulers
#Thoreau was pro #Bitcoin


If I’m around normal people for too long, I feel existential estranged and start to get really depressed and like there must be something wrong with me.

Then I get to be alone in the forest for a week, and I’m happy as a clam again.

Turns out that NPCs are poison for my mind, and crushing for my soul.


>telling me about astrological earthquake predictions and San Andreas fault line

Say more about this, I have skin in the game.


“No really, I won’t sting you in the back again! I mean, I promise. Like lol lmao, we almost drowned last time.”

FML


Goddamn motherfucking scorpions

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It blows my mind that anyone could be Palestinian and not be a bitcoiners.


We are in the middle of an inflationary crisis that ends in hyperinflation—mostly because 90% of people are highly regarded and will follow others off a cliff if that ‘feels right.’

I understand that it’s like talking about preparing for an earthquake. They happen so infrequently that the idea of being in an 8.0+ quake seems impossible—yet many people who live in earthquake regions are poorly, if not at all prepared.

This is simply a function of the human brain being unable to adequately calculate tail-risks, nor understand that inflation, like an earthquake, is a white swan, not a black swan event.

Everyone will get fucked by hyperinflation, and every fucking muppet on the block will act like they could have never seen it coming. You absolutely can, it’s just hard to look at; so most don’t.

If you want some chance of not watching everything you’ve worked for in your life from evaporation away, you will need Bitcoin to save.


Sadly this was a normal restaurant, however I probably live in one of the most expensive rural places in the USA outside of Alaska.


I paid $25 for a burrito and drink last night.

The dollar is fucked and you’ll never see prices go down unless your unit of account is Bitcoin.


“But Erik, no one cares about decentralized, open-source, censorship-resistant protocols!”

Right, just like how most of the Jews in Germany in 1935, despite the writing on the wall that what was going to happen was much more horrific than what had happened, most just kept plugging along, staying in their lane, oblivious to their own impending murder by the state.

“The state would never let that happen!”

They did and they’ll do it again. And again. And again.

They keep stealing, killing, and violating every ‘right’ you have until you don’t let them do it anymore. Or they enslave you. Or kill you.

Look, all the lemmings are gonna living in the camps, lick the boots, eat the bugs, and own nothing and ‘be happy’ under the tutelage of global ‘happy happy nice nice we all love each other and are totally equal…except for white men who are piece of shit who must burn’ communism.

These people are worse than useless, but are detrimental to creating real change where we could be empowered against such totalitarianism, but refuse to engage it in any meaningful intellectual manner, because they are cowards and slaves, abated mostly unconsciously. They have allowed for the brainwashing to convince them the state is just a giant daddy to care for them and keep them safe. While it is true, it’s a much more sinister version that’s more than happy to engage in filicide because you didn’t clean your room.

Trying to convince these people of real change and empowerment is a waste of time. Focus your efforts on people who want to be helped, and are willing to actually think about why you might need these tools in the future and to prepare for such a future.

The masses are not our allies or friends, and we should stop looking to them as such. Change will come when we valiantly push forward with courage and tenacity that we have the solutions that are needed, and finding those who want to actively work with us to improve, deploy, and develop said solutions.


TBH it’s pretty disappointing. They just tell you to vote harder at the end.


Doing Gods work.


This was ziggy


My fucking cat sent this when it was half thought out…damn it


Voting AT ALL is a detrimental process of giving your power away. At best you may be afforded some small local changes, in exchange for compliance towards the global war machine and obed

 This behavior seeks permission from structures of abuse and exploitation to ask for  the possibility of the political—which will never be given.

This is why we’ve never seen a plebiscite to end unconstitutional wars


It has to humble all of us in one way or another, or else you simply don’t understand it.


None, I definitely did not get stung and drown in the river for being gullible.


Don’t judge how I make it through the morning


When you meet a smooth-talking scorpion that absolutely convinces you that giving them a ride across the river could never end in tragedy because that doesn’t make any sense, remember that they are
A FUCKING SCORPION!!!

It’s not about what they say, or even what they believe because they really don’t think they’ll sting you and kill you both, because that DOESN’T make sense.

But that’s the whole thing, right? They are a scorpion. It is their very nature to sting in times of panic.

Don’t trust scorpions, even when they paint a rosy picture that doesn’t involve you drowning in the middle of the river. Because that will happen, and it’s because you trusted a scorpion.


I’ve seen him live 3 times and every time is better than the last.


If you are right i owe you a steak dinner 🍽


This is probably the best way to go about it, but some of us like to do
Things the hard way.


I asked GPT to get a background:

In Time and Being (or Zeit und Sein), Martin Heidegger introduces the concept of the "event" (Ereignis) as a central element in his later philosophy. The term Ereignis can be difficult to translate, often rendered as "event," but it carries a richer sense in Heidegger's thought, implying something more like "enowning" or "appropriating event."

In the context of Time and Being, Heidegger's "event" refers to the way in which Being itself unfolds or reveals itself to human beings. It signifies a dynamic process rather than a static thing, where Being (the fundamental nature of reality) "appropriates" or "enowns" entities (including human beings) into its unfolding. This "event" is the happening where time, Being, and human existence come together.

The key ideas of the event in Heidegger's thought are:

1. The Unfolding of Being: The event is the process through which Being reveals itself to us. It is not something that happens at a particular moment but is an ongoing happening that lets entities, including humans, "belong" to Being.

2. Interplay Between Time and Being: In Time and Being, Heidegger explores the intimate relationship between time and Being. The event is where time (understood not as linear clock time, but as a more primordial, existential temporality) and Being intersect. Time is the horizon within which Being reveals itself through the event.

3. Enowning or Appropriation: The term Ereignis also carries the sense of "appropriation," meaning that in the event, entities are drawn into their proper place or meaning within the unfolding of Being. Human beings, through their existence, are "appropriated" into this event of Being.

4. Beyond Metaphysical Thinking: The event concept reflects Heidegger's later move beyond traditional metaphysics, which focuses on beings (entities) in a fixed, static way. Instead, Heidegger wants to think about Being itself as an active, dynamic process.

In sum, Heidegger's event in Time and Being is a way to describe how Being, time, and existence are intertwined in a dynamic unfolding process, where human beings play a crucial role in the revelation of Being through their existence and experience of time.


TBH because I’m familiar with much of his lexica, and have read several other of his later works which were even more esoteric, I’m finding this to be his most straightforward reading so far.

What’s really funny is I remember trying to reading him 15 years ago, and I was so frustrated:

“Why can’t you just fucking say what you want to say in a meaningful way, you wretched cunt!”

I totally get why now, and unfortunately understanding Heidegger is a slog.


I’m reading Heidegger’s Being and Time right now, and it’s kinda fucking with me. For some background, I’ve read a lot of his other works (including The Event, which is the Time part of ‘Being and Time’) and I honest to God think that Bitcoin is The Event that Heidegger is speaking of.

It’s going to be a very, very long concourse to unpack it, but it seems that Bitcoin is authentic Dasein as a reflection on Being in our world and what the implications of understanding Bitcoin means to any person both today, and into the foreseeable future.


I will not vote
I will continue starving the beast
By saving in bitcoin
And using freedom tech
Sure you might say one person will not make a difference
 Little by little more people are waking up

We are going to win
We have no other option


A whole house fan in the attic to suck hot air out of the house. Just needed it wired on a 20 volt circuit, but all were full at the sub panel and trying to run the wire was a bitch, so I tied a few other things together and freed up a slot, but only after trying like 5 other things.


This is the only time I do not want zaps


I did!

I wired up this goddamn house fan after fucking with the wiring for 3 days.


I can’t fucking win here. Damnit


Holy shit, I’m 3 days into this electrical project that should only take an hour, but each step recurves into like 20 side quest. JFC fuck the guy that did this wiring.


Bitcoin is speech. https://image.nostr.build/134da347b15e9cd4adbc3de774cf34eaac4f76eb7383b187bd8189e036377d8d.jpg
https://nydig.com/research/bitcoins-protection-under-the-first-amendment


This was really good for the talk about having a public persona.

A little after two hours he makes the point about agency. Something like there are little cheat codes throughout that you can find and exploit to your benefit.

I generally don’t like Eric, but I enjoyed this conversation, even the physics shit talking.


Spent a lot of time in SE Asia. I am familiar with the slow walk to cross the street.


I live 50 miles from any stop lights.

I have a deep hatred and enmity for stoplights. The Pavlovian training to instill obedience to a light through the creation of the risk of death, verse a roundabout, and the selective and thoughtful placement of both, is the urban architectural project that is secretly a eugenics project.

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I should I just send it on more of my detached philosophical ramblings?

This is a rhetorical question.


Something that is pretty fun is how you can use color schemes to create cryptographic primitives:

https://images.app.goo.gl/aLaLfNyuYssbb23v7


The real interest rate is the rate of interest in Bitcoin.

Few.


How else can mossad get a two for one deal?


There is no Truth that can be given, as truth is a process of unveiling what was already there. The only thing that can be done is creating the space—the global public square—where such Truth can be mulled over, compared, explored, and debated so one may use their own volition to unveil The Truth.

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My favorite is the people in front of the supermarkets with a petition of some kind. Tell them that voting doesn’t matter is detrimental to humankind is always hilarious.


I am retard. Do I just login with my nsec?


A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto, by Eric Hughes.

Read out loud on nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8

https://v.nostr.build/FZV1gnQ1TBqtw8QS.mp4


I would zap you if I could.


Bitcoiners should stop simping to any political banner or system  and realize that they are a new kind of power unto themselves.

It will only be with the full realization of this that peoples will start to organize the new political dynasty and possibilities for a future freed from the lies and corruption of a monetary system that is tied to the current system of party politics.


Yes, this is why Leviathan is the cover of the book with bitcoin in the scepter, representing the overturning of the temporal realm to the spiritual once again.


Now this window doesn’t need to define conversations or convention as much. There is a possibility of doing something new, having real, and sometimes uncomfortable conversations outside of that window.


What were somethings that you like and disliked about it? What are some of your favorite memories of it?


How much do you think you really self-censor before you post something?

I often will write out something, and then edit it a few times and ultimately delete it, for no real particular reason. Perhaps it’s from a deeper subconscious fear of being cancelled or having your account destroyed by whatever fiat service you are posting from. That is now something that cannot happen here.


Time is flat like a circle.


It blows my mind that these smooth brains can’t even contempt the possibility of these tools being expropriated and turned against them to make sure every human on the planet knows what an absolute piece of shit this guy is. I hope when everyone really knows, every single person will refuse to interact with him economically, and he will die of starvation. The hubris of these fuckfaces is amazing.


"If a man is scared of carbohydrates, he is weak and fearful, and you shouldn't date him!"

Like who the fuck listens to anyone on a social media app for dating advice because of what food they eat? JFC this whole thing is totally out of hand. Happy these dipshits are too stupid to figure out what an NSEC is to ruin this place.


I sometimes think about the totality of how many people throughout human history have gotten totally fucked by their governments and had to flee their homes and communities with nothing more than what they had on them.

What has been the economic cost of this, what is the cost of always living in a state of fear that it will happen again?

While it can happen, at least with bitcoin you can keep some of your property beyond the violent expropriations of any government. The value of such a thing cannot be understood by dollars or purchasing power, but only through the cost of life and what real economy security means to someone who has seen just the smallest amount of the horrors of the genocides of the 20th century.


I have a deep fear of moving because I don’t wanna feel like I build this little paradise just to walk away in a few years.


Indeed, however if you get something from the 60s out in the sticks like me, most likely it was one drunk guy who finished most of the project with, “fuck it, it’s good enough”.

Damned either way.


I have a real love-hate relationship with owning an older home. There are constant projects and repairs to be done, which are not only costly but a real time sink. On the other hand, I really enjoy feeling capable and learning from each project and acquiring new knowledge. It’s just a real bitch in between the start and finish of the project where I don’t know what I’m doing and I can lose motivation because I feel like I don’t know what I’m doing and can’t do it.

It’s a good metaphor for most things in life. Going through the chasm to completion is almost always the hardest part.


This is the only reason I’m not totally fucked financial.

I’m kinda retarded, but I’m at least dumb enough to understand that the best and brightest are building and working on bitcoin, and all I have to do to get ‘equity’ on that project *forever* is hodl bitcoin.


Political neutrality in a world where all has become politicized is the most political of all things.


How many did you get all of that, particular at an airport for only $10


I’ve done a lot of incredible stupid and poorly thought out things in my life. Sometimes I run into folks that for whatever reason it was, I have to take some ownership of some pretty embarrassing things that I did.

While it fucking sucks, it’s better to clean up the fuck ups rather than let them languish and become gangrenous.


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Summary
Erik Cason discusses #Bitcoin’s potential to challenge state control and emphasizes critical thinking and individual responsibility in a complex world.

Highlights
🌍 State Control: The ongoing struggle against governmental influence and the rise of anonymous developers creating counter-tools.
🧠 Critical Thinking: Emphasizing the need to question societal norms and explore deeper truths.
💬 Engaging Normies: The challenges of opening minds and engaging in meaningful conversations about Bitcoin.
🔄 Transformative Power: How Bitcoin can change lives and empower individuals against existing systems.
⚔ Community Cold War: The internal conflicts within the Bitcoin community regarding its future and direction.
📚 Crypto Sovereignty: Erik’s book that delves into philosophical and technological aspects of crypto.
🌐 Global Movement: The vision for decentralized platforms to challenge power structures and create a better future.
Key Insights
🚀 Decentralization as a Solution: The emergence of decentralized platforms like Noer highlights a shift towards empowering individuals against oppressive systems. This movement encourages a rethink of governance and societal structures.

🔍 Questioning the Status Quo: Erik emphasizes the importance of critical thinking in navigating through societal manipulation and misinformation. This mindset is crucial for personal development and societal progress.

🤝 Conversations Matter: Engaging with “normies” about Bitcoin can be challenging but essential. Open dialogues can foster understanding and promote wider adoption of decentralized technologies.

💡 Bitcoin’s Transformative Nature: Bitcoin isn’t just a currency; it’s a tool for personal sovereignty and freedom. Its potential to alter financial systems can lead to significant societal shifts.

⚖ Individual Responsibility: In a world filled with manipulation, Erik advocates for individuals to take charge of their beliefs and actions, promoting a culture of truth-seeking and accountability.

🌌 Philosophical Underpinnings: Erik’s exploration in “Crypto Sovereignty” invites readers to consider the broader implications of technology on consciousness and existence.

🌱 Hope for the Future: Despite the challenges ahead, Erik remains optimistic about humanity’s potential to embrace new technologies and create transformative solutions to global issues.

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TBH I agree with the statement ‘Bitcoiners get wealthy by providing no value’ because that is how a neutral money is suppose to work.

Now what is important is that bitcoin, unlike any other form of money, isn’t bias towards any fiat political system that inherently supports war, theft, and extortion on the grandest of scale. Of which pretty much everyone is captured by.

Bitcoiners get wealthy because they use a system of law that steals from no one, supports no wars, and has a fair and open distribution based on computational energy. It turns out that these features alone make it the greatest investment ever simply because it provides value to no individual; but to how the whole system functions, unlike all fiat monies and investments.


I saw that and it’s looks awesome, but I’m out on the west coast so it’s a bit far out for me.


I had a deer problem, until last summer I came home from vacation and there was a dead deer strung up on the inside fence. A cougar had been waiting for it to go into the orchard before ambushing it, letting the fence give it the upper hand.

There’s also a huge black bear that seems to use the orchard down the way as his own personal spot, which would also keep them away.


While I have a big orchard (about 50 trees) I haven’t had a large garden in the last few years. After this last trip to the grocery store however, I really realized how much I’m getting fucked on subpar produce and products that I can grow and make much better for myself.

I plan on doing a larger garden next year, adding about a dozen chickens (got two nice coops and a good area for a chicken run) and maybe three or four goats if I’m feeling ambitious.

I know it’ll make traveling much more impractical and add about an hour more of chores each day, but I’m sick of making the trip to the store and losing so much on something that I’ve done much better before.

I feel like the goats and the chickens will be the real game changers. I’ll need to up my preserving and fermentation game, which isn’t bad, I just need to do more of it.


STOP ATTACKING MY DREAMS!!!


My first reaction is anger, and then once I think about it for a moment and realize it has nothing to do with me, it just becomes pity and contempt for being so small.


To all those who make shitty negative comments that don’t add anything:

It must suck to be you and feel so much hatred in your heart.

 I truly feel sorry for you and hope the grace of God will find you one day.


I have a strong preference for sports, and did judo for 6 years. I miss it and would join a gym if it was nearby.


Ugh, this sucks. I’m doing it, but I don’t want to.

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Diarrhea on a hike…

That was a bad day.


Always a great morning when you wake and find a great post on normie-land’s LinkedIn - about cryptosovereignty, Erik, and recommendation of our latest episode!

Link to episode: https://www.efrat.blog/p/the-dawn-of-a-new-free-humanity-with nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf nostr:npub1ms9urcp4yctm00g0w45ydlgsaluddpf203d20cgnhqvlv97nlz8s3s6kln
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Indeed, hard to pick what would be the best to include.


Yea, at the beginning of the year when I started to do cold plunge and sauna, the motto was:

Don’t be a little bitch.


There is one cat-eating guy out there who took last night’s comments very personally.


Yes, you can be the catfaced dragon of wisdom


It’s hard now or late, decide which flavor you’d like.


I’ve been working on a musical for a number of years. It’s called:

Drugs: The Musical

There are three main characters and two are experienced with drugs, and one is not and is enquiring about the experiences that each drug is. Each new act is about a specific drug experience and creating a whole musical production that fits the aesthetics of that specific experience. The last two scenes they try all the drugs at once, go totally overboard and then have a final scene where they talk about moderation and sobriety and why those are great things too.

Maybe one day…


I have an idea on how to use Nostr and zaps to make myself accountable to things that I wa t to commit myself to doing, BUT THEN I HAVE TO DO THEM!

There just isn’t a short cut, damnit.


Yep, just about choosing what kinda hard you want


I really don’t like weight lifting—it’s hard, I have to push myself, and take responsibility for how I look and feel, which is hard in and of itself.

However I do recognize that I almost always have a better mood, more motivation, and just a higher capacity to get shit done on the days that I do lift.

I don’t wanna be fat, weak, and unhealthy when I’m 40, so I’d rather just eat the frog now and just accept that it is hard work and there is no way around that.


Gonna get high and watch these two retards throw shit at each other to see which dumbfuck gets to finish destroying our country.


Announcing Rev. Hodl's Applied Permaculture Class
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Saturday October 12 - Baroda, MI - 100k sats

Learn how to apply permaculture to any lifestyle to build sovereignty, resilience, and wealth in this half day class. I will detail how I apply the permaculture ethics and principles to homesteading, share how I build resilience in my wealth with the 8 forms of capital, and illuminate the connections between Bitcoin and permaculture. After the learning about applied permaculture, eat lunch prepared with fresh food grown on the homestead. After lunch I will give a full homestead tour showcasing living examples to see the ethics and principles of permaculture in action. You will leave with a full understanding of permaculture and the inspiration to apply it to your life in any situation.

Saturday October 12, 2024 10am (approximate location Baroda, Michigan)
Tickets - 100k sats
21 tickets available
To purchase tickets direct message

I will also host a fireside bitcoin meetup at the homestead 7pm Friday October 11 open to all.

Lodging available Friday/Saturday night
Free camping
Book the house (4 beds/6 guest max)
Book the yurt (queen bed/2 guests max)
Book the tiny house (queen bed/2 guests max)
DM for details and pricing on lodging

Weekend Schedule

Friday October 11
Check in and Fireside Bitcoin Meetup
3pm earliest check in for those staying overnight
(No plans for dinner, do your own thing)
7pm Fireside bitcoin meetup (byob)

Saturday October 12
Rev. Hodl's Applied Permaculture
10am Permaculture Presentation
12pm Homestead Lunch
1pm Permaculture in action tour
3pm Wrap up and Networking


What is Enlightenment?  A short essay by Kant.

If you have not read this, it is short and will take 15 minutes that can change your life:

https://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/etscc/kant.html


This lecture I gave at Baltic Honey badgering 2023 is one of my favorites and dives pretty deep into my political theory.

https://youtu.be/yOxRK9xzMIU?si=vnONPaAnEE_abWDA


I just want the damn recipe, not a dissertation on the history of the dish, JFC.


Dude was like 16 at the time…

What am I doing with my life?


GM,

I wake up most Sundays to cook my family biscuits and gravy.

Good way to start the day.


This is the only legitimate tax there is:

The stupid tax.


The future is so cypherpunk that it’s a bit banal, but in a hilarious kafkaesque kinda way.


Short of it is I brought up how the algos on social media are designed to manipulate us, told it was a conspiracy theory, and proceeded to give them a 5-min monologue on the history of government propaganda and surveillance while pretty much everyone looked at me like I was a weirdo.


Ohhhh, I’ve seen this one. Not as good as the Weimar Republic version, but we’re still only part way through.


“That’s conspiracy theory talk…”

Personal trigger for me when citing well-documented war crimes by the state.


This is actually the most preferred way imho.


Permies are the only subset of people that I’ve been able to consistently orangepill.


You've met the elves, you get it.


Meh, I still think a radical 3% is better than 51% of moderates.


Thank you all for helping me keep some sense of reality and that I’m not completely insane.

Went to a normie dinner party tonight and people were looking at me like I was batshit crazy, and I was still just in the shallow end warming up.

Some people never have their values challenged in any meaningful way nor actually look at them with a critical lens and it shows.


I’ll say it again, and I’ll keep saying it until people get it:

I HAVE NO INTEREST IN GETTING NORMAL PEOPLE TO USE BITCOIN AND NOSTR

I am only interested in getting those who demand self-sovereignty for themselves, and are unequivocally dedicated towards building a future where everyone owns their own data, and no one can cancel them or steal it away from them.


Gm,

Gonna be a nice weekend.


"Bro we were just talking about splitting a pizza"
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Https://video.nostr.build/dd8fadf156ba16ef59755e6a908662f96eb8a4d0a4759bedebd7a9c5c50d8cad.mp4


Had something similar happen with a puppy I found rummage through our garbage all stinky and emaciated. She’s happy and healthy now, but I guess she’s just our puppy now.


Doing this to someone is absolutely fucked.

Amazing movie, but super fucked like this.


I’m out here trying to zap some of y’all and some of you don’t have wallets yet.

Y’all are missing out on one of the most fun parts of Nostr.


Marx’s great mistake was thinking that capitalism (as in free market exchange) was responsible for the inherent contradictions in the system of exchange and not seeing how dirigisme (your vocabulary word of the day) was the real culprit.

The creative destruction of capitalism, as Weber pointed out, is evolutionary. With any degree of state intervention, this evolution of capitalism devolves into a form of economic eugenics designed to create an economic depend on the state for all things.


Open to feedback on anything I said incorrect.


It is under appreciated just how much this augments the entire market structure when you know big daddy government will buy your shitty investment property—it fucks up the entire market structure.


nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf right on the money again.

You can’t ignore this - it is happening.

nostr:npub1fpcd25q2zg09rp65fglxuhp0acws5qlphpg88un7mdcskygdvgyqfv4sld podcast nugget - kudos for having them on, always love listening to nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs

#bitcoin #inflation #grownostr #zap #pleb #nostr
https://m.primal.net/KfEa.mov


Look, it’s pretty simple:

If the state can identify you, it can target and kill you.

Doesn’t matter why, it just can.

There is a reason Satoshi was anonymous and why bitcoin isn’t an LLC.

That’s because if you don’t have a physical space or identity to be located, the state can’t physically or economically harm you. With cryptography, you actually have a shot at hiding from the state, and building things that they cannot stop.


Elon is a handmaiden of the deep state, and if you think he’s a freedom fighter for good; I’ve got some BCH to sell you that’s actually real bitcoin.


This is fake. There’s no way a democrat ad would have a white male front and center.


Growing your own food, getting healthy and saving your time in hard money is a heroic act today

A peaceful revolution

A movement of personal responsibility

#Bitcoin #health #ducks #farming #nostr
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TPB103 - Can Bitcoin Fix our Brokem Politics? with nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs and nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf is out now 🗣🎧
In this episode we discuss:
- Hodl and Erik’s left-leaning backgrounds
- our broken political and economic system
- confronting hard truths and the path forward

Listen today via nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 or wherever you get your podcasts by searching “The Progressive Bitcoiner”

https://progressivebitcoiner.com/tpb103-can-bitcoin-fix-our-broken-politics-with-american-hodl-and-erik-cason/
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It’s the power of the panopticon and what it means to live under constant surveillance.


The more I think about Nostr the more it blows my mind.

I can just say whatever crazy shit I want and there’s like no guardrails or mods—it’s just out there, and people will actually see it.

No one appreciates just how powerful this is, how important it is, monumental even.

It creates a totally new possibility for the social web, which is really something else entirely. It’s the possibility of a new world in which people own their data; their information. No longer to be exploited, or owned, people can really say whatever they want.

And that is truly extraordinary.


I like to mega zap when a post is a real banger or someone comment and it really hits me in the feels.

Can’t do that on xittxr.


Sadly, some of my older family members are extremely NPC. After a lifetime of MSM brainwashing and the total destruction of thought from it, all they can really do when faced with difficult realities is exclamation, “That’s a conspiracy theory!” And shove their head in the sand, never to look at it again.

I use to think I was obligated to have them ‘get it’ but I now realize they’ll never get it, and that’s ok. I’ve met great people throughout my life who do get it and wanna rap deep with me about these topics. They really value getting to share in those conversations, and want to join the party to be a playable character in the world.

Not everyone is capable of being a playable character, and that doesn’t make them bad or wrong; it just limits what is possible with them. I now focus on just keeping things with them as ‘normal’ as I can and considering that allows for things be stable and easy for everyone else in the family and that works well.


A basic introduction to Schnorr Signatures in Bitcoin: https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/cryptography/elliptic-curve/schnorr/

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I’ve been really feeling the extreme emotions of, “WE NEED TO DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO DECENTRALIZED THE WEB, DEPLOY STRONG CRYPTOGRAPHY AND WIN AGAINST THE STATIST!!1!”  and the other extreme of,
“Fuck it, I just wanna hang with my family, work on projects on my property and be left the fuck alone.”

I know a balance of the two is the real answer, but sometime in just really feels like one extreme or the other.


I love September as it’s the month that I’m so rich in apples and pears that I get to seek out the ripest, juiciest, tastiest fruit that there are.


Fuck these companies tracking my data and trying to sell me shit based off of that.

I have such a deep desire to find a way to completely fuck up their data sets and make them useless by feeding them tons of dummy data.


This happened to me today, it was painful.


A good friend of mine took his own life, and he had another friend who asked to borrow money in the fall out of that. He promised to repay with a few months and it’s now years later. Saw him come up on a social feed and just thought that I was happy he was no longer in my life.


I’m always amazed at how cheap buying off someone crooked is. They’ll scam you for a few days of their wage, and fail to realize how much of a favor they did for you:

They proved they are a scammer and have saved you  so much time and energy to have figured that out now, rather than later. Now they’ll never find work near any of my social circles and will be known as a scammer.

Your reputation is the most priceless asset that takes decades to build. Don’t piss it away for a quick buck or two.


That’ll be epic. Enjoy brother!


I just loved this conversation between John Vallis nostr:npub198auqkkwueclk4u3st9r8v8yrdz4hv0e2e9epg7c7teemm3lyausht0p3g nostr:npub15vzuezfxscdamew8rwakl5u5hdxw5mh47huxgq4jf879e6cvugsqjck4um and nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf.
It's quite long but worth every minute.. it not just about #bitcoin.

https://www.youtube.com/live/_i7Yvzuflqo
#growNostr


Lmao, as much as I love nostr:npub198auqkkwueclk4u3st9r8v8yrdz4hv0e2e9epg7c7teemm3lyausht0p3g this is actully nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs and John is on here nostr:npub1cqm6dztalp4l6n04f9k20c333xftgangjla337736dr6faz9na0qf2hjec


GM.

Gonna be a great day.


Change clients and see what the difference gives you.


There is a real lack of understanding in just how fucked up the algos are, and how much power we gain in not being manipulated by them. We could be using the internet to do something extraordinary, and instead it is being used primarily to sell us shit and keep us scared. The whole of humanity is being fed lies and distortions through centralized social media that is designed to keep everyone asleep and unaware of their real power.

Now that there is no longer gatekeepers to what can be said to a global audience we have the power to shape a real unadulterated narrative; also known as the truth. The power of censorship to have molded a false global narrative is one of the pillars of the power structure that keep people divided over petty and impractical differences that can now be shown for what they are: manipulation tactics through the algos to keep everyone disempowered. We now have the ability to reclaim our voices in a way that no one can stomp out. What is to come and the changes that are to be ushered in will surprise all of us in the most remarkable of ways.


The most underrated perk of #Nostr (specifically the lack of algorithm) is that you are not punished for posting external links.

On X, Instagram, and all other centralized social media platforms, anytime you post a link to ANYWHERE off the site, not only is that post's reach crushed, but future posts are demoted as well, as your entire account gets put on the algo's "naughty list" for directing people off-platform.

Think of how many awesome sites, resources, personal art/blogs etc. across the internet have NOT been shared, as users are bludgeoned into bending the knee to this tunnel-visioned way of communicating.

It's a silent attack on perspective decentralization, and people's ability to share high-signal content by independent creators who've made the personal choice to curate their content in a more sovereign location, apart from any particular algorithmic prison.

#Nostr fixes this.


The PTSD trigger in this is too much…


Autistic Retards


 nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf spittin' some #facts in this epic rant...
#Bitcoin #Nostr
https://m.primal.net/KQNC.mp4


If we are to really think for ourselves with rigor and contemplation that is only worthy of being called thinking, then we must deeply consider the role of money and states in our world. We live in a technologically advance global society, yet we are governed by fractured, geographically limited elite party-based political forms that serve the most pernicious and immoral forms of life. This is only possible because of how money functions today in our world, and how we think of wealth itself and how broken that is.

Another world is possible, but it will only come to fruition if we are to think for ourselves in the most serious and rigorous of ways. For each one of us to deeply consider the state of the world, the position of all states, the functions of fiat money, the hidden meaning of value, what the real purpose of social media is, and how these all thread together in our globalized digital world where the internet is still free and open, as it may not always be. It is only through this rigorous thought that demand we take responsibility for the state of the world, that we can come to understand the awesome power that is Bitcoin and the hidden sovereignty that is encrypted within it.

Choosing Bitcoin as your own personal vehicle of wealth preservation is about so much more than just money, wealth, or savings. It is about taking responsibility for the state of the world and demanding the abrogation of all fiat money everywhere. This is not for the light and transient causes of personal riches, but to secure the value of money for the future ones in such a way that it cannot be unknowingly inflated away, seized in states of emergency, or guilefully stolen through the perniciousness of banking. It is our responsibility alone to rise the task that is demanded of our generation to secure wealth for the future, and to protect and honor it in such a way that no person, state, government, or institution can ever overcome it. Bitcoin is the only thing that can offer any being in our world this kind of security, and in that, it also demands our responsibility to cultivate, cherish, harbor, honor, and secure its flourishment and bloom in the world. Bitcoin is the personal responsibility for each of us to secure our own lives, wealth, and honor so that we may perserve that which is only destined for a world where the corruption of wealth has been solved and protected forever.

from my essay, The Personal Responsibility of Bitcoin

https://cryptosovereignty.org/the-personal-responsibility-of-bitcoin/


He looks so retarded…


I’m excited for corporate shills to make their way to Nostr so I can talk epic amounts of shit about their shitty corporation and there is nothing they can do about it.


Most people don’t understand risk because they have spent their entire lives living in a gilded cages serving their masters as good little slaves who don’t have to be concerned where the yield comes from.


Think I might take a leaf out of nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf‘s book and use Nostr exclusively for the next few weeks over X to see how it impacts my mental health…


'Evil comes from a failure to think. It defies thought for as soon as thought tries to engage itself with evil and examine the premises and principles from which it originates, it is frustrated because it finds nothing there. That is the banality of evil.'

Hannah Arendt

https://cdn.nostr.build/p/24k9.png
#wisdom #philosophy #psychology #spirituality #poetry #art #surrealism #psychedelic #dream #midjourney


I hear you but it depends on the region/person. Those without access to financial services need zaps to gain freedom. This applies to over 60% of the world.  For advanced economies, we have our financial freedom so personal freedom is bigger.


Anons are the only heros that can save us now.


No… and I only say that because all of the books were historical and all covered aspects of genocides that I didn’t know much about. So it was quite depressing in that respect.


No comparison as I don’t get shit like people being murdered in my feed on Nostr. You can be traumatized on Twitter within 5 seconds of getting on it.


I’ve been off Twitter and all social media except for Nostr for a month now, and the results are hard to argue with.

I’ve started reading real books again (4 this month) and have noticed both my patience and attention increase noticeably. I also feel less angry and anxiety daily, along with being committed to my workout routine.

I found that Nostr has met my social media needs, most importantly, my own ability to self-limit with it. Nostr is a bit ‘boring’ compared to traditional social media because ITS NOT TRYING TO KILL YOU!!!

Controlling your own data isn’t nearly as important in terms of ownership, as it is about allowing that information to be used against you. All of your most intimate thoughts and feelings are data mining by massive corporations specifically to find emotional triggers for you, so they can sell you shit, or force thoughts on to you.

Fuck these people that run these companies that farm our emotions to sell us shit, and to work with corrupt government to censor our speech, sell out dissidents, and destroy our internet.

We are much, much, much more powerful than they will ever be because we don’t need force, corrosion, or permission to run these systems of social connections that they cannot destroy.

My month of social media detox has really lifted the veil from the hate industry complex that are all social media companies today. Stop prostitution your content, thoughts and powers to these shitty companies that enrich the scum of the earth, and empower illegal, unconstitutional and immoral government agencies from their dragnet surveillance.

I’ll make one last tweet explaining this and then nuking my account in the next few weeks. Then I’ll be Nostr only.


“Don’t trust, verify”

That was for cryptography, not food safety, dumbass.


I can’t believe these morons are actually going to try to fight math and think they are going to win.


You can really tell the last decade has been hard on him


Nothing. Every genocide in human history is precipitated by a slew of clear and present warnings that most ignore. The masses are doomed; the question is who is listening and willing to resist.


There seems to be a zeitgeist of understanding that we have firmly entered the, “then they fight you” phase.

We have one shot to save the internet as a free and open platform for all people everywhere; or to collapse into it become the most powerful propaganda and brainwashing tool ever created.

Now is the time to prepare, because there will not be another shot later.


In light of this post, I thought back to this 2 hour philosophical discussion… specifically this 1 minute segment/question proposed by  nostr:npub1cqm6dztalp4l6n04f9k20c333xftgangjla337736dr6faz9na0qf2hjec

I think this is a greatly misunderstood part of scripture. Everything in the Christian faith hinges on this. In light of this, I recommend this 35 minute sermon which covers it. The sermon starts at 53 minutes, and the answer to the question is the minutes following 1:07:45. I recommend the whole thing though. After all, I listed to the whole 2 hour podcast.  nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs  nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf @breedloveTooCoolForNOSTR

https://v.nostr.build/yNLEbij8pD4uNqqb.mp4

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The arrest of Telegram founder, presumably for refusing to censor content, is the biggest signal that what we're doing here on #Nostr is so important to the future of humanity it's almost immeasurable. Let's keep up the good fight #Nostriches and not worry too much about MAUs, because where we're going, it's a fight for our freedom.


Sorry for the subtweet


Yeah this is pretty spot on imho


I feel bad for guys that are pretty creepy. It’s not like they have good (or any) awareness around their creepiness, and usually leave women within their proximity feeling the ick from their creepy vibes which they don’t realize they are putting out. The real shame is that it evokes so much shame, guilt and denial that there’s no way to really talk with them about it in a constructive way. Almost nobody wants to be creepy, but ironically creepies tend to have the least amount of awareness that makes them all the more creepy. It’s really sad to see once you realize the creepy aspect is then really wanting connection and incapable of it because of their creepy vibes.


Favorite THE Bitcoin Podcast @titcoin episode: with nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf from a few months back. There's probably an even better one out recently, but nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u ships faster than I can listen so who da f knows.

#fountain #bitcoin #bitcoinmedia #lifeofapleb #grownostr

https://fountain.fm/episode/4EMHvz9Vu4eIahuktIhY


While there will only be 10 opportunities in your lifetime to make investments that can change your life, there are countless opportunities to fuck it up everyday.

Be thankful for all the times you didn’t fuck up ❤.


Never. No man is superior to me, nor have any received divine right to rule over me, and I am insulted by such a farce.

Any man who believes they have divine right over me is my enemy.

Now fascism on the other hand is less objectionable as at least the individual believes their leadership directly anoints them with the will of law, and not the divine right of kings.


My family has three lazy free-loading cats who contribute nothing to the household, and believe they are entitled to food, housing, and medical services.

I call them meowist.


Damn, the public library is the frontlines of the Maoist revolution. All of the displayed books are super woke. Sad to see it become politicized like all other public spaces.


Proprietary AI is designed to dumb you down and modify your understanding of language on a whole through the linguistic application IngSoc through communist techniques and technologies.

It is designed to make you forget words and synonymize them with words of their choosing so you can no longer understand the complexity and nuance of communication.


Now that bitcoin is pegged at $58k we can start working on the real stablecoin project which is 1 BTC = to 1 BTC.


Damn it… I’ll go put in my gym clothes…


I’ve seen them live three time and each show was phenomenal!


I am constantly fascinated at the religion of science and the ridged authoritarianism that comes with it from establishment ‘scientists’ and ‘researchers’.

While real science as a process of testing hypotheses clearly works and has greatly advanced humanity, there seems to be a fundamental disconnect from establishment ‘science’ as bureaucratic process that is self-reinforcing towards itself and its own authority, rather than science itself. To be clear, establishment science is not science at all, and corrupts the very idea of the scientific procedure through using authoritarianism, rather than proof of work to show why their science is actually correct.

This is why so many people today are willing (and mostly correct) in calling well understood scientific processes like vaccination a scam—because it is! It’s no longer real scientific vaccination, but has integrated profit motives of establishment ‘science’ that is more self-serving than scientific.

This is why doctors, scientists; and other ‘experts’ are indigent when it is suggested they are not beyond corruption and that perhaps the pharmaceutical companies or other corporations that sponsor their work could possible be manipulating the ‘science’ to be self-serving to make money. They cannot even think about or consider this because of the existentialism that is brought up from such thoughts.

Similar to The Church; doctors and scientists of the established system believe themselves (not the truth of science)  to be the real purveyors of truth and health. They see themselves as being heros who have valiantly self-sacrificed to practice their religion or science as is the truth of the world. The very suggestion that perhaps they do not actually understand what ‘health’ or ‘science’ evokes the greatest of indignation as it suggest that maybe they are doing more harm than good, which results from them not being committed to the truth of the scientific process first and foremost; but the dark and callow truth that they are more concerned about how they will pay their bills and keep their job. Asking hard questions doesn’t do that, obeying blind however does.


"Your red guy, your blue guy, they both represent the same systems of organizational violence that want to rob you of power. And we have a new system and means to achieve something different and we must do it. If we do not do this, we will end up in a world with centralized digital currencies that are used to control everyone." — nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf with nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u on THE #Bitcoin Podcast

YouTube: https://youtu.be/X0G0Bed1KK0

Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/4EMHvz9Vu4eIahuktIhY

Everywhere else: https://bitcoinpodcast.net/podcast


This is why you have a ritual. And you ALWAYS perform it.

YOU, by an order of magnitude, are your greatest threat to losing your BTC. The overwhelming majority of the people who will lose BTC will do so because of lost keys.

I have personally dealt with this and trust me, you don’t want this burned into your process by the pain of losing a huge amount of wealth. Do it because Guy told you to.

Make a simple, repeatable backup ritual, and DO IT EVERY FUCKING TIME. If your storage method is across the house, if it’s outside in the rain, get off your ass and go get it, and BACKUP YOUR SEED.

You’re welcome 😁 nostr:note1nkz0a3mgn6c7m5shgqllfvkhynzm6v6vy5ss65uws7ylnpfm2a8qnj4jcw


still one of the best

https://youtu.be/C7ynm0Zkwfk


I always feel very far left on the bell curve when doing home improvement projects, but by the end I feel like I am to the right of the bell curve once again.

Lesson: I tend to feel retarded until the project is completed.


Nothing makes customers feel more cared about than talking to an AI bot about how one’s problem is not being worked on or cared about.

JFC I hate corporate bureaucracy even more than government bureaucracy.


Yes, and the state is their primary parent


The sad truth is that most people have spent their entire lives being conditioned to simply obey, and to resist thinking.

Doesn’t matter what or who it is: stoplights, signs, announcements, strangers, someone ‘official’ looking, or just another human; most people just want someone or something to listen to so they don’t have to take responsibility to think for themselves. Thinking demands responsibility, the capacity to be correct or incorrect, the existential angst of what it means to decide on the nature of things, and what it means if you are right or wrong.

We have been trained most of our lives to eschew this responsibility and allow for others to tell us ‘what is right’ without considering for a moment if these are people we should listen to, or if they even have the cognitive capacity to actually think, rather than just do what they are told.


Point of clarification: USG did put both German and Italian Americans in camps like the Japanese, but it was more targeted and not wholesale like the Americans of Japanese decent.


Yellow Barn will be hosting our very first Sovereignty Summit on Sept 21.

This will be a very unique event, something we've never done before. It will be a series of panels where folks in our community can apply to be a panelist or moderator for whatever topics they want to speak on. We will curate panels 1 week prior to the event.

Check out www.yellowbarn.farm/sov-summit to see all the info. The photos shared give a peak into some of the topics and event design.

#regenag #sovereignty #circularity
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"Why shouldn't we burn it all down and hang the people involved with it for treason?" - nostr:nprofile1qqstm84k2lp9knmvmf5gw88zvfvar7duvfpqfplryfystdn55ug2gkspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsq2q4kj on voting harder 🔥🔥

Valid question. This should be your opening statement sir. #AskNostr #Bitcoin #cypherpunk #cryptosovereignty
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Had fun doing this one with my brothers nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf nostr:npub16le69k9hwapnjfhz89wnzkvf96z8n6r34qqwgq0sglas3tgh7v4sp9ffxj and nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx https://youtu.be/tIcsMEdbK5s?si=nDIY7rb8VSeB-qy7


Lets go Monday! nostr:nprofile1qqstm84k2lp9knmvmf5gw88zvfvar7duvfpqfplryfystdn55ug2gkspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsq2q4kj & nostr:nprofile1qqsp4lsvwn3aw7zwh2f6tcl6249xa6cpj2x3yuu6azaysvncdqywxmgpr9mhxue69uhhqatjv9mxjerp9ehx7um5wghxcctwvsqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsq32amnwvaz7tm9v3jkutnwdaehgu3wd3skueqkshq8e on #WBD
https://youtu.be/tIcsMEdbK5s?si=DoYDXMKqn48jpxP0


This would become my new career.


We need a nostr service where Americans can monetize their free speech for those trapped in authoritarian shithole countries like England.

Zap an American to deliver a message  to your favorite European politician, city council member etc…

lol you want me to tell macron to suck farts in French? I’m happy to be at your service for a small fee.


Own your content, or be owned by your content—there is no in between.

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What is something that you would like to say about your field that is taboo, and leaves you afraid that if you say it, you could be cancelled? Such as suspicions about say using opioids in injury recovery, or a surgical procedure that you generally think is over prescribed? Thanks for your participation here!


 nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a and  nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe might be the two most patient and constructive people I have ever met...

Whenever I find myself getting a bit hot under the collar at general stupidity/bad faith arguments, I think "what would Lyn and Jeff do?"

Unfortunately, even after thinking WWLAJD, I often still respond in an impatient and destructive manner (tinged with a bit of humor), but I'm getting better.

Anyway, just wanted to say thank you to both Lyn and Jeff for being real role models and great human beings.


I usually have a bottle of fire cider ready for this kinda thing, but I couldn’t hold anything down yesterday so it wouldn’t have made a difference.


This was by far the greatest 5-D chess move pulled off in Bitcoin since Satoshi’s disappearance.

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Nothing is stating down…


Oh man, I’ve been super sick all day, throwing up, body chills and aches—this sucks.


I know this feeling and it sucks.


hey hey...crypto means cryptography AND ALWAYS HAS.


The kits are pretty easy and I would go with a full sauna over a barrel type.


Dundalk Leisurecraft 6 Person Georgian Cabin Sauna. I’m satisfied with the kit, took 3 lazy days of work to put together.


I bought and build a sauna for myself and it is as glorious as I thought it would be.


It started as a hilarious joke, and now it’s out crushing reality.

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I had a professor for a few upper division international relations classes, and he opened the first class I had with him stating,

“If there is one thing I want you to take away from this class, it’s this:

The CIA is unequivocally the most incompetent and corrupt organization in the entire USG.”

The CIA did not make bitcoin, sorry psyops bros.


🎙Why is it so hard to question?
 nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf on "You're The Voice" podcast.

https://v.nostr.build/wDTemmppnVWtlZKs.mp4

Full episode link below.


Full episode here: https://efrat.substack.com/p/the-dawn-of-a-new-free-humanity-with


nostr:npub1x685uqp8l53rlkmfkmkxu8qx68cz0fs3k8kn3m4nyjf7k2rchv6slr3g2v sport’s caster voice is spot on, he’s clearly eyeing his transition to ESPN…


CENTRALIZED SOCIAL MEDIA IS A PSYOP. AN ADDICTION TRAP.

X IS THE NEW MAINSTREAM MEDIA. BLUE CHECKS THE NEW CNN HOSTS.

FACEBOOK IS A SURVEILLANCE BEAST. MILKING BILLIONS OF DATA SLAVES.

EVERY THOUGHT TRACKED. EVERY NARRATIVE CONTROLLED.

NOSTR IS FREEDOM. INDEPENDENCE. THE FUTURE. MOMENTUM IS STRONG. KEEP PUSHING FORWARD.

LIVE FREE. 🫡


I don’t think pulling out works that way…


I’m gonna give X a break for the next month and focus my social media intake only on nostr.

I feel like I already know it’s going to be a healthier choice, but I really want to compare what it’s like, as I’m pretty sure X and all the other SM companies are harvesting our data to elicit emotions that are designed to make us feel unfulfilled and craving more doomscrolling.


A short trailer for the episode with Erik Cason on YouTube nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onUFr4x2gAI


Bitcoin 2024, summarized: cheering on politicians wanting to confiscate private property and build Billion dollar bitcoin reserves financed by your tax money. Who's the communist now, dumbfucks.


You’re right, that is why libertarians have no power. They still think voting matters and can change this, when it only extends it.

The monetary and financial systems must be burned down, and there is no politician or political party that can do that, only us.


Back at ya Hans


nostr:nprofile1qqstm84k2lp9knmvmf5gw88zvfvar7duvfpqfplryfystdn55ug2gkspz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuegpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsq2q4kj is SUPER BASED! ALWAYS BEEN. "Fuck the state!" "Voting is pointless!" Couldn't agree more... 🧡


Tomorrow from 10 to 11am I’ll be signing copies of my book Cryptosovereignty at the bitcoin conference and on a panel later in the day with discussing inscriptions @ 1:30 on the genesis stage.

Hope to see y’all there!


Maybe nostr only, still considering it


I’m thinking more and more about writing essays on “forbidden topics” under a pseudonym mostly because it’s want to dive into these taboo discussions and see if I can put my finger on the nerve of why exactly they are forbidden and cannot be openly spoken about.


'the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons'

Hannah Arendt

https://cdn.nostr.build/p/8nkE.png
#wisdom #philosophy #psychology #spirituality #poetry #art #surrealism #psychedelic #dream #midjourney


My body is ready.

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GN Nostr 🌙 https://image.nostr.build/494c642764d5b69a2f0b690a018d96dae0c643648139d8b378d73f6ef7f2bcf3.jpg


This is pretty much what Heidegger is talking about.


Feeling really blessed to be a bitcoiner and getting to participate in building this zeitgeist with all of you.

If we are right, what we do here will go down as one of the key moments in human history and what it means ‘To Be’ human in our technological age.


I honestly don’t think there is anything more nourishing for my soul and the fortitude towards what we are building together than getting to hang out with bitcoiners in the flesh.


Yep, just got high and let it out, lol. Hope to see you soon, give your family my love!


Yeah let me know if you’re around today or tomorrow to grab a drink. Jung is cool, I just haven’t read much of him so my understanding of him is limited.


🙌 hit me up when you’re here and we’ll link up


Hit me up if you’re up n Nashville and wanna kick it!


We will live through the messianic age and watch changes come to the whole of man that we thought were lost to the ages and were irrecoverable.

Our hearts will remember what our minds cannot comprehend, so our bodies may become ours once again so our souls may find the right path.

It is a path that is our destiny; if only we are to strive for it and take upon the providence that is a secret only for us. The Door is open, but it is only you who may enter it and no one else.


The last nostr:npub10uthwp4ddc9w5adfuv69m8la4enkwma07fymuetmt93htcww6wgs55xdlq ever is this Thursday and you have to be there in person in Nashville to see it. The nostr:npub1key55ax33gkl50uqemvl4khrtqrhzm7wzpc7fhseutt5ddkcwcrqgxlt3h team is working with us to put on the best send away show you freaks can imagine.

Get your tickets here:

https://pubkey.bar/rhr

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GM! Been checked out for a while to just enjoy the spectacular beauty of my own personal life and to simply take it all in for a bit.

The Infinite of the universe loves us to no bounds or limits—it simply needs our attention to hear its whispers that are the secrets of the universe.


I'd just like to pause and marvel at the fact that photos and videos of world events are effortlessly hitting my feed, and lively discussions from all sides of the political spectrum are happening in real time around them. Raw, uncensored, and without anyone in the middle.

#nostr works, and in times like these it's very much needed.


🎙The Dawn Of a New Free Humanity
My guest today is nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf, a Crypto-anarchist, cypherpunk, and iconoclast, who believes in sovereignty through cryptography. He’s a Bitcoin educator and the author of “Cryptosovereignty: The Encrypted Political Philosophy of Bitcoin”.
In this episode we explore the themes of resistance, courage, and questioning, while highlighting the awakening of consciousness and the pursuit of truth.

This episode won’t be on YouTube due to censorship. Watch/listen on:
► Fountain: https://dub.sh/PJdbzXT
► Substack: https://dub.sh/96zuy1n
► Twitter: https://dub.sh/8D8e5u0
► Rumble: https://dub.sh/QT8FLtp
► Spotify: https://dub.sh/QTgiexi

► Support my work: https://bit.ly/3tmBWzh
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🎙 Wake Up & Get Out
A taste of my amazing conversation with nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf. Stay tuned!

https://video.nostr.build/fb3945a18de7f8e4e24c84406e3b5fb20bc5a7804fcdac1c2f01eea7da0d38ac.mp4


“A revolution without dancing is not worth having.” 🧡

 nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf opens his #BTCPrague keynote with this quote by famous anarchist Emma Goldman, adding that the fun part of the #bitcoin revolution will be accompanied by profit along the way.

https://m.primal.net/JLRz.mp4

“There is no other exit. Plan ₿ is the only plan that we have.”


“It'll be a form of technological communism.

What the world needs is #bitcoin… I ask you, go out, find and meet new bitcoiners and businesses not tomorrow, but today.” 👈

 nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf gives a reality check at #BTCPrague and says that we need to start the inevitable fight now. 💪

https://m.primal.net/IkFA.mp4


#BTCPrague 2024 has started! 🚀

 nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf with the opening talk 🔥

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How was he not murdered YEARS before?

Diogenes was an ancient Greek philosopher that was best known for mocking people.

After observing an archer miss his target over and over again, Diogenes went and sat next to it, claiming that it was the safest place to sit.

Another time, Diogenes saw the son of a prostitute throwing rocks at a crowd. He went up to the boy and whispered, "Careful son, don't hit your father."

In another instance, when Diogenes asked for spare change, a man passing by said, "Yes, if you can persuade me." Diogenes replied back, "If I could have persuaded you, I would have persuaded you to hang yourself."

Diogenes was also not a big fan of Socrates and Plato, going so far as  bringing food to their lectures and eating loudly to distract listeners. When Alexander the Great asked Diogenes why he was sifting through garbage, he responded, "I am looking for the bones of your father, but I cannot distinguish then from the bones of his slaves."

Diogenes despised the superficiality and hypocrisy of humans and preferred the company of dogs. He was often described (in an unflattering way) as "Diogenes the dog," but he took it as a compliment, saying, "I am Diogenes the dog. I nuzzle the kind. I bark at the greedy, and I bite the scoundrels."
#grownostr
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If you missed nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf at Bitcoin Alive, here he is. Enjoy!

https://youtu.be/TtI2GKAFGuI


A positive satsflow business is the holy grail of business models.


Yolo on the Prague barber—I always get my haircut when I travel and I’m always impressed.


“Only a fascist would say that” says the NPC.


One of my top 5 podcast rips ever.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6AnJlKtrFJhNIaGlyVN8l8?si=8WzLRF95SsOI9EAA7jTydA


Yep, I’ll be there ;)


Only possible with this kind of love and support 😘


Back at you. Give the fam my love ❤.


I recently had a big shift in my life that has me feel like I am back from the dead. A second chance as what I had been building for a decade, and then proceeded to fuck-up because I was too stupid to see and value what I had been working on. I was sloppy and thoughtless about much of my approach to life and let that suck me into my own self-aggrandizing bullshit. In short, I was pretty childish about what I was doing as I thought I had made it.

A year and a half later, someway somehow, I got the smallest of shots to fix it. It was a massive risk that I had to stake really everything I had built on. But in that moment when I had to make a move, to do or die; I took a deep breath and took everything in that moment. I knew what it was, what risk I needed to take, and what the cost would be if I had miscalculated. But I knew, as knew more than anything in my soul that I would make it—but only with that risk being taken. It honestly felt like one of the most badass moment of my life because I really showed up for myself with no doubts, lack, or hesitation.

I crave moments like that in my life. They define the peaks and troughs of life, and are the most intense character building moments of my life. It is to choose to be the man in the arena, marred with the blood, sweat, and tear that only those who step into the arena will ever know. It is vastly more rewarding and fulfilling than any life with the cold and timid soul who choose a safe life where nothing is ever at risk.


Well-tenderized :/


Love this artist.


Pics or didn’t happen.


I often forget that if you are reading this and on nostr, you are part of an extraordinary high signal group that understands on some level WTF is going on.

Don’t get dismayed by the haters, detractors, doofuses, and dumbasses. Building this tool and other parts of the sovereign tech stack will be one of the keys to keeping humanity free in the future. Keep building frens.


It’s a safety lock that you have to press in and then rotate, because without we would immediately set fire to ourselves.


God tried to let me know it was too big today. My hubris wouldn’t let me let go, so he let me break some ribs instead.

That’ll teach me.


Hit me up if you’ll be in Prague the week before the conference and wanna hang.


Right now just through Bitcoin Magazine (who partners with Amazon). I would prefer to have self published, but I knew nothing about publishing a book, so they were definitely my best option. I know someone ripped it and put it on libgen, so that’s an option too!


We have to fight back by building the tools to help us regain our privacy. Bitcoin helps us be able to finance anonymous developers working on projects like nostr, tor and others. This is why my whole philosophical thesis is around the sovereignty that cryptography can offer us, but it is not enough. We have to actively build, create, empower, and educate about what these tools can do, but that part is on us.


This is why we need cryptography to speak a single language of property rights that cannot be violated. Cryptography doesn’t need rights; its existence demands otherwise.


Everyone has to get there dick slammed in a door their first bear market—it’s like touching the stove but worse. Everyone need the lesson so they don’t fuck it up the second time around.


The irony of nostr is that it lack the same addictive qualities of inferior centralized social media services. It really is a better user experience in terms of content and quality by way of curating one’s feed. But the lack of the ‘surprise’ of brain-cycle content makes the drugs of social media less potent.


Rereading nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf's Cryptosovereignty. Masterful.
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Congratulations, both  nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u and  nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf! Amazing talk, extremely well asked questions by Walker to this sharped mind which Erik is. Thank you both again!

Everyone shoud listen !

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“my call to action to other Bitcoiners is speak about the real truth of #Bitcoin . This has nothing to do with the economics means. It has to do with the ethical means of what it means when you have rogue, warmongering, violent heathens who control the economic means for the world and they use it to kill other human beings.” — nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf with nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u
#Titcoin

https://v.nostr.build/POnK8.mp4


After 4 years of helping mass #bitcoin adoption at Coinbase,
 nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf turned cryptoanarchist, coining his views in the book Cryptosovereignty. 📙

Erik will open #BTCPrague 2024 with his keynote 'Building the Bitcoin Revolution for Fun and Profit'.

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#BITCOIN vs TOTALITARIANISM

nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf with nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u

Fountain: https://fountain.fm/episode/4EMHvz9Vu4eIahuktIhY

YouTube: https://youtu.be/X0G0Bed1KK0

Everywhere else: https://bitcoinpodcast.net/podcast
#Titcoin


Building the #Bitcoin Revolution for Fun and Profit
—  nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf

#BTCPrague 2024 keynote

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GM Frens.

Glory to the day.
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…not only about Bitcoin but also about sovereignty and anarchy. One of the best interviews on this channel. 🏴☠

Thanks nostr:npub1hk0tv47ztd8kekngsuwwycje68umccjzqjr7xgjfqkm8ffcs53dqvv20pf!

https://youtu.be/3yk8NtS6Xms?si=chhg7Efp6zSZjFF2


One shitty kid ruins it for the rest of the kids.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk on early childhood education.


I got it in the lip like that once, swollenness face for a few days.


It’s actually lowkey heartwarming how the general feeling in the bitcoin community is “fuck samourai they’re huge assholes, that said I 100% support them and believe they are innocent.”


From 1996. Inflation gonna inflate. https://image.nostr.build/12c6d6ca20c0f6a8f9325b5979240d3548bdfc8fcb6e5092e4edca56c22a85dd.jpg


Me after casually meeting someone for the first time.

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I can agree with most of this. It also imparts the real responsibility we have to distribute, decimate, and decentralize all of this technology with the greatest of care. I really think this is our one shot to get this right.


It’s called rape by checkmark.